Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2371 points

2650 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3749 points

4215 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points

2190 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1875 points

2104 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

57.44 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

47.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3456 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2704 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

923 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3487 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2612 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1123 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

903 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

647th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6820HQ vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U beats the Core i7-6820HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6820HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6820HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Core i7-6820HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.